SERVICES WE PROVIDE
Consultation and Presentations
Colleen and Elaine have given hundreds of presentations at conferences, workshops, lectures and in service presentations across Canada about the 60’s scoop and provide historical context but also what the needs of 60s scoop survivors are now.
We can provide information on cultural safety, working with Indigenous child welfare survivors and intergenerational family members, developing and implementing Indigenous ways of knowing and being, including ceremonies, languages and traditional protocols.
We also provide Indigenous competency training which is creating an environment that Indgienous people feel culturally safe and are treated with respect. , cultural program development, facilitation, and cultural care.
Mental Health, Addiction and Cultural Support
Professionally trained in crisis intervention and providing anti-racist, anti-oppressive support in different environments and online support.
Grief and Loss Support
We can provide one on one confidential, cultural & emotional support to Indigenous people across Canada who have experienced loss and grief.
60’s Scoop Survivor informed practices and presentations
Learn about the the work the Sixties Scoop Network has done since 2014 in the Ottawa area hosting six national gatherings, creation of the GIS Mapping the 60s Scoop Disapora and database and the most recent DNA Genetic Detective partnership to help survivors find biological family members.
Ask about our Workshops!
Qwe/she pronouns / traditional helper -Elaine Kicknosway is proud to be Swampy Cree through her biological mother and her biological father’s side is from Buffalo Narrows. She is a member of Peter Ballantyne Cree Nation in Northern Saskatchewan, and is Wolf Clan. She is a Sixties Scoop Survivor and returned home in 1996 when she was in her late 20’s. She has been long time community advocate in the areas of child welfare, MMIW2SG, healthy families, and Indigenous Wellness . Elaine is an Indigenous trauma informed Counsellor/ an Ontario wedding officiant, Blanket exercise facilitator and trainer, Indigenous full spectrum doula, Indigenous Death Doula , Traditional dancer, singer, drummer and a helper to many .
sîpihkopiyesiw/Colleen Hele- Cardinal is nehiyaw iskwew (Plains Cree) from Saddle Lake Cree Nation, AB but was adopted and raised in Sault Ste Marie ON. She is a community organizer, social justice advocate, public speaker, author and kokum. Her work includes organizing six national 60s scoop gatherings in Ontario, raising the issue of the 60's scoop at an international level to the displacement and loss of identity survivors have experienced. Colleen also speaks publicly and candidly about MMIW2SG and the impacts of the 60’s Scoop drawing critical connections between colonial child welfare removal policies and her lived experiences and those of women in her family. Colleen continues to volunteer with several initiatives, including Families of Sisters in Spirit, Blackbird Medicines and the Nobel Women’s Initiative Sister to Sister Mentorship program to address gender-based violence, while giving context on the making of Canada, treaty relationships and the dehumanization of Indigenous people through policy and media. She is the author of the Ohpikiihaakan-ohpihmeh (Raised somewhere else): A 60s Scoop Adoptee’s Story of Coming Home as well as spear-heading the GIS mapping initiative Mapping the 60s Scoop Diaspora, and being awarded the Ontario Premier's Award for Outstanding Community Service. Currently Colleen is a resolution health support worker for the Sixties Scoop Network.